Baby Care and Parenting Tips

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37. Getting comfortable
Breastfeeding is absolutely natural, but it still has to be learned. Much will depend on “reading” the signals your baby gives you. But you can make things far easier by getting settled for a breastfeeding session-which could last for an hour. Lying down is ideal for night-time feeds. For other sessions, seek good back support, such as sitting on a low chair with no arms, or lying up against a bed headstead with plenty of pillows behind you.

38. Guiding your baby to latch on
Once settled, take a deep breath and relax your shoulders. If in private, take off your top to make it easier for baby to “latch on”, that is to be correctly placed on your breast and sucking efficiently. Use your baby’s natural reflex to “root” (seek out) and to suck. If you or baby, take another deep breath and start again.

39. Managing your milk flow
Your baby doesn’t just suck. She “milk” the breast by pressing on your milk supply at the base of the areola (the coloured area around the nipple). Don’t worry about “supply”. Your baby’s sucking stimulates “demand”. However, when your milk comes in, your breast may become engorged and sore for a few days. This makes the nipple go flat so it is hard for baby to latch on. Try these steps to help baby latch on and quickly relieve any engorgement.

40. Changing over during a feed
Let your baby suck for at least 10 to 15 minutes on one breast at each feed. After you’ve burped her, or she has had a short nap, slip a finger between her jaws to break her suction and offer her the other breast. She may be hungry enough to drain this one, too, or she may just suck for comfort. In either case, let her suck till she falls fast asleep.

41. Coping with leaking breasts
Your breast may leak a lot between feeds in the early weeks. You cannot prevent this, but it will diminish as your breasts settle down and supply matches your baby’s demand. To cope with this problem – and protect your cloches – wear disposable or fabric – washable breast pads inside your bra. These will absorb some of the dripping. Change the pads frequently, as wetness near your skin may make your sore.

42. Soothing sore nipples
Sore, red nipples usually result from your baby not latching on properly. Check that she takes the whole nipple and areola area into her mouth, and that her temples and ears are moving (that is, her jaw muscles are working hard). Cracked nipples give you shooting pains during feeding, but don’t stop feeds, as you may become engorged and make the problem worse.

43. Expressing milk by hand
Expressing your own milk means you can freeze it (for up to one mouth) and someone else can give it to your baby – which allows you greater freedom and flexibility. It is an easy and painless process. Help the flow of milk  by applying a warm flannel first.

44. Expressing milk by pump
Expressing with a purpose-made pump can work far quicker and be less tiring than hand expressing. Choose a “syringe”-type pump where the outer cylinder converts into a bottle. First soften your breast with warm water and massage them as if expressing by hand. The feeling an your milk ducts should be like your baby’s jaws.

45. First-year feeding routines
How long should a feed last? How many feeds should I give my baby in 24 hours? Can I tell when she is going to be hungry? Such question are all part of the emotional and practical worries of feeding a baby in the first year. Bear in mind the following tips when planning a feeding routine.
BREAST FEEDING TIPS:

• Always feed your baby as often as she seems hungry. And give her as much as the wants
• For the fist month at least, do not try to establish an inflexible routine.
• If you started off in the first two weeks by feeding your newborn 10 times in 24 hours, this should be reduced to eight feeds, then six, after a further six weeks.
• By two months expect to be feeding about every four hours.
• By three months plans for five feeds a day plus two night feeds.
• By four no five months plan for four feeds a day plus some solids.
• By six months your routine should be two breast-feeds a day: early morning and bedtime.
• By nine months you should be beginning a bedtime feed only.
• If you both want to, you can continue to breast-feed well into your baby’s second

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A BABY boom has agitated Britain’s population by the 61million mark since the 1st time.

There made up 791,000 children birthed in the UK last yr – the peak for a generation.

That aimed the population up by 400,000, the largest rise since 1962.

The Office for National Statistics stated there are now 61.4million people living in Britain. That’s rise up of two million since 2001.

For 1st time in about a decennary, birthing and mortalities caught up with immigration as the greatest factor bearing on population growth.

Tens of thousands of eastern Europeans went home as the recession bite.

But half of all births were to women born remote the UK.

Ons statistician Roma Chappell highlighted the significance of the shift.

She said: “You have to go all the way back to 1993 to find a time when the fertility rate went higher.

“For the first time in a decade, natural change exceeded net migration as the main driver of population change.

“Prior to 1998, natural change was higher than net migration. This isn’t a new phenomenon for the UK.

“If you go back, it was common for natural change to exceed net migration.”

The figures confirmed the growth in the ageing population as the number of people over 85 hit a record high.

There are now 1.3million, making up two per cent of the population. The shift in Eastern European migration rates was even more marked.

New arrivals were down more than a quarter from 109,000 to 79,000 in the year to December.

More Eastern European immigrants went home in the same period – up by more than half to 66,000.

And the number registering for work fell 42 per cent to 116,000.

ONS chief statistician Karen Dunnell said the increase in emigration was probably due to the economic downturn.

The surge in Eastern Europeans returning home and the decline in arrivals meant they added only 13,000 to the total population last year.

Borders and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said: “The fall in net migration is further proof that migrants come to the UK for short periods of time, work, contribute to the economy and then return home.”

The population is now growing by 0.7 per cent a year, more than double the rate in the 1990s and three times the level of the 1980s.